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The National Geographic Magazine 



Russian Soldiers 



From "Russia under the Great Shadow," by Luigi Villari. James Pott & Co. Copyright. 

 This excellent book on Russia was reviewed at length in our last number by General A. W, 

 Greely, U. S. A. 



of Kolyuching Bay, on the Siberian 

 coast. It is evident that this particu- 

 lar cask did not get a good start, and in 

 the one year less four days of its drift 

 the course it followed of 380 miles to 

 the southeast was probably influenced 

 by local currents which exist near Ber- 

 ing Strait. 



The other representative of this 

 silent fleet which has been traversing 

 the desolate wastes of the Arctic seas 

 had a longer voyage and doubtless a 

 more eventful history. Placed on the 

 flow ice northwest of Point Barrow, 



Alaska, in latitude 71 degrees 53 min- 

 utes north and longitude 164 degrees 

 50 minutes west by Captain B. T. Til- 

 ton, of the steam whaler Alexander, on 

 September 13, 1899, it was recovered 

 one mile east of Cape Rauda Nupr, on 

 the northern coast of Iceland, on June 



7, 1905- 



More of the casks have come through, 

 but have not been found, while others, 

 no doubt, have been found, but not re- 

 ported. There is no telling how long 

 the cask found on Iceland drifted about 

 in open water before it was cast ashore. 



